Monday, November 21, 2005

Kevin Andrews - Quote of the Week

I heard this pearler last week - would've posted on it at the time but it took a while for the ABC to upload the transcript.

In response to a question about a submission written by 150 academics (professors and associate professors who are specialists in business and industrial relations), Kevin Andrews gave this pearler of a reply:

"You know, a group of academics is no substitute for commonsense proposals."

I just love the way that conservative governments constantly portray intellectuals and academics as some sort of snobby, unrealistic, head-in-the-clouds elite, thereby enabling them to dismiss them out of hand. Don't you?

Comments:
Cass,

This is a pearler. I will have to quote it to my wife Dr K. She might not laugh though....

B.
 
If it was common sense why did it take 12 law firms and 700 pages?

They've been dacked conducting class warfare and they know it.
 
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